South Carolina Poet Laureates

Deep River: The Complete Poems of Archibald Rutledge

South Carolina's first state Poet Laureate.  This volume contains: Heart of the wildwood -- Deep river -- Sonnets -- The valiant -- Mortal toils.

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What the Wind Forgets: A Woman's Heart Remembers

 South Carolina's second state Poet Laureate. She was a founding member of the Poetry Society of South Carolina and was the Curator of Public Instruction at the Charleston Museum.

This volume includes:  AMERICAN CALLING. Enchantment -- No Pegasus -- Moon-glow -- Clairvoyance -- The Sea -- Command performance -- Tsunami -- Hunter's Moon -- Moon glade -- De Profundis -- "Full moon - High tide" (an Irish legend) -- Antiquarian -- Consider this -- Insight -- Paradox -- Destiny -- Lonely woods -- Out of the shadows -- Caterpillar -- Deplorable to learn -- Meditation -- All quiet things -- Hooked rugs -- Easter Monday -- Night prowler -- Mountain garland -- Vietnam--Warfare limited -- Home welcome -- Gossummer -- "So they say" -- Challenge -- Thanks for everything! -- Talisman -- Bethlehem -- Confirmation -- Prayer -- Autumn perspective -- Prescience -- CYCLES FOR LOVE. How can we sing? -- Gift -- Fulfillment -- Dirge for love -- Release -- Lesson -- Renascence -- Reprieve -- Tolerance -- To a knight errant -- "Father into thy hands--" -- Retrospect -- Salvage -- Song for seasons -- Song for an eagle -- Infrangible -- On going away -- For someone -- Reply -- Weaver -- Sea-change -- In absentia -- Farewell to charms -- Questionnaire -- To the valiant -- Not always sorrow.

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Fast Freddie Frog, and Other Tongue-Twister Rhymes

South Carolina's third state Poet Laureate. He was a versatile poet, author, and educator who taught English at the University of South Carolina. He wrote poetry, translations, literary critism, books on teaching poetry, and popular children's books. 

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Not Set in Stone

South Carolina's fourth state Poet Laureate. An poet and educator, she also wrote plays and radio and television dramas. 

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The Endangered: New and Selected Poems

South Carolina's fifth state Poet Laureate, she was a poet and educator who published her first poem at the age of six. She also composed poetry for formal state occasions, most notably for Governor Jim Hodges' inauguration - a poem that also celebrated the end of the millennium. 

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One River, One Boat: Occasional Poems and Other Stories

South Carolina's sixth state Poet Laureate, she served from 2003 to 2020. In 2021, she received the South Carolina Governor's Award for the Arts. 

Marjory Wentworth's compilation of work with subject matter spanning from war, to grief and loss, to politics, and more. Wentworth made national headlines when former SC Governor Nikki Haley removed her poem, "One River, One Boat" from her inauguration program schedule in 2015.

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